Romans in Britain
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The incipit of a piece in the Guardian: A battered and corroded thumb-sized piece of bronze has turned out to be a unique find, the earliest representation of an Egyptian deity from any site in Britain – and appropriately, after almost 2,000 years hidden in the ground, it is Harpocrates, the god of secrecy and…
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The BBC has a very nice little slideshow of some of the skeletons from that dig at York which are claimed to be of gladiating victims. There’s actually some good stuff here, and since I can’t really embed the slideshow, I do want to make some comments (the numbers refer to the slide): 1. 60…
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A late-Roman/Christian (?) cemetery … here’s some coverage: ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found what is thought to be a late-Roman cemetery in a county village. So far, a total of 46 human remains have been excavated and archaeologists say they expect to have found more than 50 by the time they finish next week. The discovery was…
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A potentially-interesting find due to waterworks construction: A 2,000-YEAR-OLD human skeleton has been unearthed alongside Iron Age artefacts near Tewkesbury. Archaeologists uncovered signs of the ancient Roman villa in a field on the edge of Bredon’s Norton. It is thought the finds could be of national importance. Metal detector hunts in recent years had led…
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Image via Wikipedia An item in the Daily Mail (hyping a television program, as often) seems to be causing some excitement: His is among the most enduring legends in our island’s history. King Arthur, the gallant warrior who gathered his knights around the Round Table at Camelot and rallied Christian Britons against the invading pagan…
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